Oh, sweet Meghan McMuffin McCain
What in the world goes on in your brain?
“I can’t stand Joe Biden because I think stupid is worse than being mean,” Meghan McCain said today. Leaving aside all personal attacks on Megs, such as she really has no credentials at all as a political expert, serves best as a clear illustration of the Dunning-Krueger effect in the world of political punditry, and is slightly overweight, that statement is really dumb.
First of all, Joe Biden is neither stupid nor mean, so it’s factually incorrect. Meghan is responding to a speech he had just given in Virginia in which he said “They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.” Presumably in front of a mostly black audience. It’s another in the string of what the media call gaffes associated with Joe Biden, most of which I don’t see as gaffes at all (eg BFD), because they need something negative to say. Joe Biden is a garrulous man, sometimes eloquent, sometimes funny, occasionally profane, often enlightening and almost always interesting. With the sheer number of words that pour forth from his mouth, some of them are going to be less than gems.
But it wasn’t a gaffe. It’s the language of class warfare, and they
She’s smarter than Victoria Jackson, I’ll give her that
And Biden, fortunately, did not apologize.
Second, I disagree with her that stupid is worse than mean. See, Hitler was mean but he wasn’t stupid. Joe the Plumber, on the other hand, is more stupid than mean. Well, maybe a little bit mean with his “shoot the Mexicans” rhetoric, but mostly he’s just famous for being stupid. And he’s nowhere near as bad as Hitler. See how that works, Meghan?
I can’t stay too mad at Meghan, though. She means well. She trusts the Republican party because they’re her Daddy’s party, and that’s kind of touching, but she wants to be with the cool kids in the modern world so she’s gay tolerant and supports legalization of marijuana. I don’t think she’s really mean.
Just stupid. And in her eyes, that’s worse.
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